(NEWS): Lagos pays N1billion damages, to build housing estate at Ijora/Badia

The Lagos State Government has paid over N1.025 billion as compensation to persons whose property were demolished to make way for the expansion of the Orile-Badagry, Ikorodu, Ago Palace roads as well as the Lekki/Epe Airport project, and the Re-settlement project for the Free Trade Zone, among others.

The government also announced that another batch of 1,000 allottees, who bought property from the State Housing Agencies before January 2000, will be given their Sub- Lease Registered Title Documents today, Tuesday.

Home owners are to pick up the documents at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium of the Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja.

(NEWS): Lagos to introduce night sittings for Magistrate Courts — Fashola

Babatunde Fashola

The Lagos state government has stated that it would soon introduce night sittings in magistrate courts across the state.

The State Governor, Babatunde Fashola made this known Friday at the 9th quarterly Executive and Legislative parley, tagged, “Law, order and the enhancement of living standards in Lagos state’ held in Lekki, Lagos.

According to him, the aim of the initiative was to strengthen the judiciary sector and further promote the enthronement of law and order in the state.

According to Fashola, “In the fullness of time, as I have been told by the state ministry of Justice, we may begin night sittings as we review some of the laws in the state.

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(GIST): Whale Found At The Beach Side In Lekki, Lagos

 Wednesday, according to reports, a big fish showed up ‘stranded’ at the Magbon-

Alade area of Ibeju Lekki an

 Wednesday, according to reports, a big fish showed up ‘stranded’ at the Magbon-Alade area of Ibeju Lekki and (expectedly), residents of the area went to work with their machetes and cutlasses butchering the ‘poor’ animal for food. 

The appearance of blood indicates that the fish was alive when the butchering started or it was just recently diseased. 

See Photos below and watch that plate of beachside fish pepper soup…